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breakout session: building thinkers
Building Thinkers through Critical and Creative Learning Strategies
LouEllen Brademan – ISD Rose Moore – ISD Shilpi Patel – DSS 2
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AGENDA
Connect to PD Focus & Increased Rigor
The WHY of Critical and Creative Thinking
Experience Critical and Creative Thinking Strategies (WHAT and HOW)
Planning Next Steps & Building Capacity
OUTCOMESLearn the WHAT, WHY, and HOW
of using critical and creative thinking strategies to raise the
rigor for all students. Begin planning ways to support
your staff with implementing critical and creative thinking strategies in their everyday
instruction.
Today's students need to be critical thinkers, problem solvers, and effective communicators who are proficient in both core subjects and new 21st century skills. Ken Kay, President, Partnership for 21st Century Skills
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Teachers will be able to:
Build relationships with students that support effort and self-efficacy in reaching higher standards
Recognize the 21st Century Skills (Critical & Creative Thinking) within our curriculum
Plan lessons that teach 21st Century Skills (Critical & Creative Thinking) by designing instructional tasks that require high levels of thinking for the essential skills
Using instructional strategies that support and promote student thinking at high levels
Engaging students in intellectual discourse Raising students’ levels of metacognition Providing students multiple opportunities to problem solve
Choose assessments that allow students to demonstrate 21st Century Skills (Critical & Creative Thinking) at high levels. 7
Will this be on the
Test?
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Fluency• Thinking of and listing many ideas
Flexibility• Thinking from different perspectives
Originality• Coming up with unique ideas
Elaboration• Building upon an existing idea – adding
details
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Connect Extend ChallengeHow are the ideas and information presented
connected to what you already knew?
What new ideas did you get that extended or broadened
your thinking in new directions?
What challenges or puzzles have come up in your mind
from the ideas and information presented?
THE WHY• Read excerpt from Chapter of Making Thinking Visible. • Record your thinking using the PLUS , MINUS,
INTERESTING (PMI) Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT) strategy. – What are the plus, minus, and interesting aspects of your
reading?
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PLUS MINUS INTERESTING
What are the plus, minus, and interesting aspects of your reading?
Green
Plus
Yellow
Minus
Blue
Interesting
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Why Teach Critical and Creative Thinking in All K- 12 Classrooms?
Moving away from
an industrial economy
and toward a
knowledge economy
innovation is a major keystone
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Source: "Tough Choices or Tough
Times" 2007, National center on education and the
economy
The demand for non-routine skills is rising fast, as the need for routine and manual
skills falls.
CRITICAL THINKING
is for science & math
True or False
CREATIVE THINKING
is for the arts & humanities
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CRITICAL & CREATIVE thinking can and should be applied to
ANY subject, content or problem.
FALSE
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CREATIVITY is a right brain
activity
True or False
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The Creativity Crisis, Bronson & Merryman
•CREATIVE THINKING requires divergent thinking and then convergent thinking.
•CREATIVITY requires constant shifting between right and left brain activity.
FALSE
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CREATIVITY can be taught.
True or False
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• Practicing promotes more creative thinking.
• Treffinger’s Creative Problem-Solving Method is composed of fact-finding, problem-finding, idea-finding, solution-finding, and plan of action and has the highest success in increasing children’s creativity.
TRUE:CREATIVITY can be taught.
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CRITICAL and CREATIVE Thinking•Critical and creative thinking are interrelated processes essential to problem solving.
•Creative thinking involves constructing something original.
•Critical thinking involves logic and reasoning skills.
•As we solve problems, we navigate between both thinking patterns across all disciplines and grade levels.
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• Students need explicit instruction and exposure to thinking strategies in context in order to be able to apply them.
• Strategies are engaging for students and teachers!
CRITICAL and CREATIVE Thinking
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TORRANCE KIDS• In1958, four hundred children completed creativity tasks designed by professor E. Paul Torrance
• The children were asked “How could you improve this toy to make it better and more fun to play with?”
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• Those who came up with more good ideas on Torrance’s tasks grew
up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college presidents, authors, doctors,
diplomats, and software developers.
• Jonathan Plucker of Indiana University recently reanalyzed Torrance’s
data. The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more
than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.
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Sir Ken Robinson … “there is a consistent
mission to transform the culture of education and
organizations with a richer conception of human creativity and
intelligence.”
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Dr. Edward de Bono
Dr. Richard Paul
Nine Strategies for Teaching Critical and Creative
Thinkingadapted from the work of . . .
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CHALK TALK: Round 1
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CHALK TALK: Round 2
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CHALK TALK: Round 3
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21st Century Skills Rethinking How Students Learn p. 314
Without a combination of critical
thinking, problem-solving, effective
teamwork, and creativity, learning
remains stagnant, more useful for passing
a test than solving a real world challenge.
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If critical and creative thinking are being implemented in your school what will be evident?
Students Teachers
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Post your responses on Today’s Meet at http://todaysmeet.com/CCTLeadership2013
What sprouted at your table discussions?
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Go as far as you can see. When you get there, you can see farther.
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Web Resources• www.criticalthinking.org • www.edwdebono.com • www.vtshome.org• http://www.sirkenrobinson.com/• http://www.creativelearning.co
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• http://www.loc.gov/teachers.com
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